A little progress this weekend...

Shell trial fitted onto chassis, all aligned well and fuel tank clears all steering gear which was a bonus

Donor gearbox removal...

Weekend spent removing the gearbox and drive shafts from the donor vehicle, lots of use of breaker bars and WD40 to ease the rusty bolts. 

Unfortunately it turns out the chassis donor which is 1972, and the buggy chassis which is 1971, have different gearbox mounts. 

The donor gearbox is also 1200 box not a 1300 which i first thought and even less ideal for top speed but will be used temporarily and will give good acceleration at least. A new mount will be needed to fit the gearbox to the earlier chassis.

A few more shiny stainless steel nuts and bolts purchased. The seat runners and steering coupling have been trial fitted together using them.

Not a very productive weekend but some work done at least.

Front Discs and steering box fitted...

Dodging the bad weather I managed to get the spindles re-fitted, brake discs on both sides as well as fitting the steering box to the beam and connecting it all up.

Cleaning things up...

Morning spent cleaning up the returned spindles and painting them up gloss black. Also cleaned up a few nuts and bolts and pedal parts ready to fit. Hopefully tomorrow will see brakes fitted to the front.

Spindles Part 2...

Had a call from the supplier today after sending the spindles back on an overnight delivery  for checking, They have re-threaded them and they went back in the post today! fantastic service from Cool Air! hopefully all back on track now for the weekend and getting front brakes fitted

Spindles...

Spindles now removed again and sent back to manufacturer for replacement or repair. Very good of them since they were purchased over a year ago.

Better weather but lots of problems...

The intention was to fit the front brakes but on fitting and greasing the bearings the axle nut refuses to fit the spindle! They came off the old spindles by hand and wont even turn at all on the new spindles????

A call to the supplier needed tomorrow.

Started fitting the hard brake lines front to back and the 2 front lines, also threaded the shortened Clutch cable and 2 handbrake cables (still to be shortened)

Front nudge bar fitted and also the rear cage temporarily to get some space in the spare room.